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Customizing Docker Hardened Images In Part 1 and Part 2, we established the baseline. You migrated a service to a Docker Hardened Image (DHI), witnessed the vulnerability count drop to zero, and verified the cryptographic signatures and SLSA provenance that make DHI a compliant foundation. But no matter how secure a …
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Should software engineers create content as a side hustle? After 13 years and a 10-year break, here's the honest truth about what it actually takes. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/01/25/should-software-engineers-create-content-as-a-side-hustle
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Retrieving the character count of a string in .NET has various methods: using Span with Length, Length, or Enumerable.Count(). This article will prove which is the fastest method. Link to article: https://dotnettips.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/string-performance-the-fastest-way-to-get-a-strings-length/
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Verifying Security and Compliance of Docker Hardened Images In Part 1 of this series, we migrated a Node.js service to Docker Hardened Images (DHI) and measured impressive results: 100% vulnerability elimination, 90% package reduction, and 41.5% size decrease. We extracted the SBOM and saw compliance labels for FIPS, …
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Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss the Github Copilot CLI tool and how you can get started with it! Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/01/24/lets-check-out-copilot-cli-dev-leader-weekly-124
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Check out this week from Dev Leader! Here's a list including articles and videos on software engineering, career development, and programming in C#! Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/01/24/weekly-recap-20260124
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A practical demo of the zero-downtime migration pattern: run old + new password hash formats side-by-side, migrate users on login, and remove legacy safely. Link to article: https://www.milanjovanovic.tech/blog/a-practical-demo-of-zero-downtime-migrations-using-password-hashing
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore services are now being supported by various IaC frameworks such as AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), Terraform and AWS CloudFormation Templates. This integration brings the power of IaC directly to AgentCore so developers can provision, configure, and manage their AI agent infrastructure. In …
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In this post, we demonstrate how the Amazon Catalog Team built a self-learning system that continuously improves accuracy while reducing costs at scale using Amazon Bedrock. Link to article: …
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In Episode 110 of Azure Cosmos DB TV, host Mark Brown is joined by Sajeetharan Sinnathurai to explore how the Azure Cosmos DB MCP Toolkit is changing the way developers build, deploy, and scale AI age Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/azure-cosmos-db-tv-ep-110-mcp-toolkit-ai-agents
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We released Spring Debugger in May 2025 to bring more clarity to the “magic” behind Spring Boot – helping you see what’s really happening inside your running application. By the end of 2025, the plugin had reached more than 300,000 unique downloads and became a trusted tool within the developer community. We’ve …
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This week we shipped the GitHub Copilot SDK which takes the agent loop from the Copilot CLI and makes it easy to embed in other applications. We’ve been using, improving, and extending Copilot CLI for the last few months and Link to article: …
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The Windows Implementation Library (commonly known as wil) provides a helper called scope_exit which creates and returns an RAII object whose destructor runs the lambda you specify. This helper Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260123-00/?p=112008
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Ktor 3.4.0 improves stability and addresses outstanding issues. Highlights include OpenAPI generation, Ztsd support for the compression plugin, duplex streaming for OkHttp, Structured concurrency integrations for the HTTP request lifecycle, and much more. For a detailed list of all the changes, check out the What’s new …
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This post is a collaboration between Docker and Arm, demonstrating how Docker MCP Toolkit and the Arm MCP Server work together to simplify architecture migrations. Moving workloads from x86 to Arm64 architecture has become increasingly important. Organizations seek to reduce cloud costs and improve performance. AWS …
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This is the first major release of Exposed – a huge milestone for both the project and the Exposed team! This release brings many new exciting features, the most requested being R2DBC support, as well as performance enhancements and bug fixes. Exposed 1.0 also introduces a stable API that guarantees no breaking changes …
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A technical deep dive into the Codex agent loop, explaining how Codex CLI orchestrates models, tools, prompts, and performance using the Responses API. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/unrolling-the-codex-agent-loop
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Introduction Picture this scenario: you've implemented a critical fix in your AI service and want to validate it against your comprehensive evaluation dataset. However, the prospect of deploying to Azure for a quick test creates an unwelcome delay in your development cycle. This challenge is common among AI developers. …
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Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are a spec for exposing tools, models, or services to language models through a common interface. Think of them as smart adapters: they sit between a tool and the LLM, speaking a predictable protocol that lets the model interact with things like APIs, databases, and agents without …
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AWS Transform is an agentic service that accelerates modernization, including .NET applications. With it, you can transform legacy .NET applications to modern cross-platform .NET. AWS Transform can port your Xamarin.Forms mobile applications to .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI). In this post, I’ll show you how to …
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